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James Hegarty

Biography

James Hegarty is an improvising pianist, music producer, and filmmaker who writes on creativity and artistic expression. His compositions have been performed in Europe, Asia, and throughout the US. He recently filmed a documentary on the creativity of street musicians in cities across America.

Throughout the 1980s he worked as a free-lance commercial music producer confronting the intersection between art and commerce at a time when technology was rapidly changing the recording studio landscape.

For twenty years he has been a college professor who teaches composition and jazz students to expand their creativity and discover their personal style. Over the years, he has been chair of the departments of music, mass communication, and communication, the division chair of creative arts and communication, and is now Director of Academic Special Programs at Principia College.

He has written concert reviews and articles on music technology for magazines and music journals. He interviews artists and innovators for his YouTube series, “Creativity Is...” Hegarty lives with his wife in a century-old historic home in St. Louis where he uses the space to record and produce avant-garde jazz and classical music.

Hegarty shares a short collection of original street photos from New York City in 1979 and 1980. These images of street life and from the World Trade Center give a sometimes profound and poignant reflection on the passage of time and the power of renewal.

New Edition! Street music is amazing. It’s guts and soul – strength and inspiration, skill and spontaneity, and sometimes even power and beauty. So I went looking for it. Across America in six major cities. This is my story, the images from my documentary that share my discoveries and the music that gave me new vistas of inspiration.

New Edition 12 More Photos! I wanted to see Tokyo, its heart and spirit in the faces of real people – in a moment’s glance, intersections of movement, the spark of knowing and seeking, the purely real moments flowing upon the river of life that is any street, anywhere. It was humid, it was July. But even in the rain, its energy never stops. This was Tokyo, and it was special, it was amazing.

Do you want to be more creative in less time? Have better ideas and then know which ones to run with? Hegarty’s book, Work of Art, shares 5 steps he discovered that can help anyone be more creative and make their ideas happen faster. Work of Art is about the craft of creativity - the work process - that turns great ideas into something awesome and real-world.